QLD: Main stories in today's Brisbane newspapers

AAP General News (Australia)
12-18-2008
QLD: Main stories in today's Brisbane newspapers

BRISBANE, Dec 18 AAP - The main stories in The Courier-Mail today:

Page 1: A growing job shortage has forced the Rudd government to move to make it harder
for foreign workers to come to Australia.

Page 2: The tourism industry says its will take on workers sacked from the mining industry
this week.

Page 3: The Anglican Church says a severely brain-damaged boy caused or contributed
to his own disability after he was swept into a drain while body boarding in flood waters
at one of its elite school.

World: The doctor who tried to murder thousands of people in the London and Glasgow
car bombings had been part of a terrorist cell in Iraq.

Finance: Open war has broken out between the Commonwealth Bank and finance house Merrill
Lynch over a bungled $2 billion capital raising.

Sport: Australia came under heavy attack yesterday as the world champions scrambled
to stay alive in an enthralling dogfight in the first Test against South Africa.

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KEYWORD: MONITOR FRONTERS QLD

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